Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams by Muir, John

Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781101907627)

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Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams by Muir, John

Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams

$35.00
Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams by Muir, John

Selected Writings of John Muir: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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A new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement.
AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL.

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness and an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir's awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, and the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual.

Author: John Muir
ISBN-10: 1101907622
ISBN-13: 9781101907627
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2017
Pages: 824
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.50d
By John Muir
By John Muir
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JOHN MUIR was born in 1838 in Scotland, and immigrated with his family in 1849 to the United States. In 1892, he and his colleague Robert Underwood Johnson founded the Sierra Club, of which Muir was president until his death; he was also influential in establishing four national parks. Controversial during and after his lifetime, his writings on wilderness preservation became the impetus for the modern environmentalist movement. Muir died in 1914 in California.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is the best-selling author of fifteen books, including the environmental classic Refuge and most recently, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. She has received numerous awards and honors for her commitment to peace and ecological consciousness. She lives in Utah and Wyoming.

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